Old pics of my home turf

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

I found some cracking old pictures of Walker on Facebook ,here's a taster.

[SIXFOOTSTEVE]

Oh and one of the Handyside arcade ,not sure how that got there .

[mark]

handyside!

no your talking!

many a happy day spent in there, Kard Bar, The Find, Things

travesty that it got pulled down. Its actually lying in a pile at beamish, the plan was to rebuild it, but it never happened

[Charlie_Thompson]

It's hardly Venice by moonlight though Steve


Digging your crazy vibe though

[Charlie_Thompson]

Seriously though - how come most of our towns and cities look **** compared to our Eurpean neighbours? They had the nazis marching through and Bomber Harris to contend with? We've got the odd gem but haway? What went wrong?

[codseeker]

is that the places that was built on Auf Wiedersehen Pet , poor brickwork

[5150]

Kard Bar :-)

[tonyfromalnwick]

I always though the arcade had a funny odour about it, like the smell of a not quite legal ciggy !

[RobAdair]

Blast from the past there Steve. I remember spending most Saturdays mooching between the Kard Bar and Windows in the Central Arcade from 1978 onwards, pretending we were going to buy a guitar so we could try out strats, les pauls etc. The Kard Bar still exists, but I think the legendary status has been lost to the chava community. I still have a look in at McKays and Grott guitars when I'm over that way, but it's just not the same anymore.

Handysides

[mark]

I always though the arcade had a funny odour about it, like the smell of a not quite legal ciggy !

Nah, smelt like blackpool in its last few years - ie smelt of ****!